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When to Mow Your Lawn in Hot Summer Weather

When to Mow Your Lawn in Hot Summer Weather

Mowing at the wrong hour will cook a lawn that would otherwise be perfectly fine. When to cut, how high to leave it, and why a blunt blade does the...

When to Mow Your Lawn in Hot Summer Weather

Mowing at the wrong hour will cook a lawn that would otherwise be perfectly fine. When to cut, how high to leave it, and why a blunt blade does the...

Growing Tomatoes in Summer Heat: Five Mistakes to Avoid

Growing Tomatoes in Summer Heat: Five Mistakes ...

Tomatoes in a South Australian summer will punish you for a few common errors. The five I see most often, and what to do instead so the plants keep fruiting.

Growing Tomatoes in Summer Heat: Five Mistakes ...

Tomatoes in a South Australian summer will punish you for a few common errors. The five I see most often, and what to do instead so the plants keep fruiting.

Winter Gardening in Strathalbyn: What to Grow and How

Winter Gardening in Strathalbyn: What to Grow a...

Our winters are mild enough to grow right through. What goes in, how to get the beds ready, and how to keep the frost off it, from my patch in...

Winter Gardening in Strathalbyn: What to Grow a...

Our winters are mild enough to grow right through. What goes in, how to get the beds ready, and how to keep the frost off it, from my patch in...

How to Prepare Your Soil for a Winter Vegetable Garden

How to Prepare Your Soil for a Winter Vegetable...

Mild winters here mean you can grow right through, if the soil is ready. What I do to my beds before it gets cold, and what actually grows over winter.

How to Prepare Your Soil for a Winter Vegetable...

Mild winters here mean you can grow right through, if the soil is ready. What I do to my beds before it gets cold, and what actually grows over winter.

Winter Colour

Five Flowers to Grow for Colour in Winter

Calendula, pansy, alyssum, heartsease and snapdragon all flower through the cold here. What each one needs, how deep to sow it, and how long it takes to come up.

Five Flowers to Grow for Colour in Winter

Calendula, pansy, alyssum, heartsease and snapdragon all flower through the cold here. What each one needs, how deep to sow it, and how long it takes to come up.

Seeds versus seedlings. What should I grow?

Seeds or Seedlings: Which Should You Start Your...

Seed is cheaper and gives you far more choice. Seedlings save you the fiddly bit and get you eating sooner. How to work out which one suits your patch.

Seeds or Seedlings: Which Should You Start Your...

Seed is cheaper and gives you far more choice. Seedlings save you the fiddly bit and get you eating sooner. How to work out which one suits your patch.